{"product_id":"greater-atlanta-black-satire-after-obama-hardback-9781496850553","title":"Greater Atlanta; Black Satire After Obama (Hardback) 9781496850553","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGreater Atlanta\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Satire After Obama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDerek C. Maus (Edited by), James J. Donahue (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496850553\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe erudite analysis unpacks the complex ideas embedded in the series’s surreal vision of Atlanta. This will enhance fans’ appreciation of the show. (Publishers Weekly) \u003ci\u003eGreater Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e is the collection we need right now. It is far more than the first extended critical study of \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone of the best television shows of our era. This volume gathers the sharpest minds interested in African American culture and satire to examine the many complexities in Black lives since the Obama presidency. A sequel to \u003ci\u003ePost-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, in many ways \u003ci\u003eGreater Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e is even more essential. No scholar of contemporary African American culture should be without it. - Darryl Dickson-Carr, professor of English at Southern Methodist University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by GerShun Avilez, Lola Boorman, Thomas Britt, John Brooks, Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Derek DiMatteo, Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Alexandra Glavanakova, Erica-Brittany Horhn, Matthias Klestil, Abigail Jinju Lee, Derek C. Maus, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Derek Conrad Murray, Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah O'Brien, Keyana Parks, and Emily Ruth Rutter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe seventeen essays in \u003ci\u003eGreater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama\u003c\/i\u003e collectively argue that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama’s election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. Using the four seasons of the FX television show \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e (2016–22) as a springboard\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e the collection examines more than a dozen novels, films, and television shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics. Contributors reveal increased scorn toward self-proclaimed allies in the existential struggle still facing African Americans today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving started its production within a few weeks of Donald Trump’s (in)famous escalator ride in 2015, \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e in many ways is the perfect commentary on the absurdities of the contemporary cultural moment. The series exemplifies a significant development in contemporary Black satire, which largely eschews expectations of reform and instead offers an exasperated self-affirmation that echoes the declaration that Black Lives Matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiven anti-Black racism’s lengthy history, overt stimuli for outrage have predictably commanded African American satirists’ attention through the years. However, more recent works emphasize the willful ignorance underlying that history. As the volume shows, this has led to the exposure of performative allyship, virtue signaling, slacktivism, and other duplicitous forms of purported support as empty, oblivious gestures that ultimately harm African Americans as grievously as unconcealed bigotry.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"I’\u003cbr\u003eve Done Told You, These Backhoes Ain’\u003cbr\u003et Loyal!\": \u003ci\u003eAtlanta \u003c\/i\u003eand the State of Black Satire after Obama\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek C. Maus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDowntown Atlanta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Perils of Enjoying One’\u003cbr\u003es Wound: \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e and Contemporary African American Satire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek Conrad Murray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhispering Sexuality: Queer Erasure and Black Satirical Disruption\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerShun Avilez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSatirizing Satire Itself: \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003es Appropriation Aesthetic and the Blackening of US Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAwkwardness and Black Millennial Satire in \u003ci\u003eInsecure \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErica-Brittney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Horhn and Derek C. Maus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForsyth County\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite (Al)lies: Eating the Other in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta \u003c\/i\u003eand Jordan Peele’\u003cbr\u003es\u003ci\u003e Get Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Ruth Rutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRacial Self-Identification in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta \u003c\/i\u003eand Danzy Senna’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eNew People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Glavanakova \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Know Thyself\": Education and Identity Fashioning in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDear White People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek DiMatteo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLake Lanier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCanines and Tricksters in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthias Klestil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That’\u003cbr\u003es You\": Reflections on Human-Animal Doublings in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003es Televisual Satire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah O’\u003cbr\u003eBrien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeKalb County\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You Chose Black\": \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003es Gendered Politics of Black Respectability and Representation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeyana Parks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e and the Instability of Racial Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTikenya Foster-Singletary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What the Hell Is Muckin’\u003cbr\u003e?\": Mistranslation and Linguistic Pessimism in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLola Boorman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIronic Minstrelsies of Affect in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillip James Martinez Cortes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’\u003cbr\u003es a Simulation, Van\":\u003ci\u003e Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Uncanniness of Black Womanhood\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanielle Fuentes Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEast Point\/College Park\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecoming Inhuman: Donald Glover, Hiro Murai, and the Self-Alienation of Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinohi Nishikawa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStreets on Locke: The Volition of \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Britt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHartsfield-Jackson International Airport\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlaying on the Border: Racial Ambiguity, Passing, and Possibility in \u003ci\u003eAtlanta \u003c\/i\u003eand Charles Yu’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbigail Jinju Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComposite Works Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607715705112,"sku":"9781496850553","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/greater-atlanta-black-satire-after-obama-hardback-9781496850553","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}